Doctor, did stress cause my stroke?
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As a stroke neurologist, my patients or their partners regularly ask me whether stress caused their stroke. This is a particularly common question when the stroke occurred in the midst of a difficult life event, or to someone young, working extra hours at school or work. Up to this point, I really have not known how to answer my worried patients, but the report by Huang et al.1 in this issue of Neurology® sheds new light on their important question.
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